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Stereotype |
An oversimplified, generalised set of ideas that we have about others |
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Media |
Means of communication - eg television, radio, newspapers |
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Practical implications |
Suggestions about behaviour in the real world beyond the research study, based upon what psychologists have already discovered |
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Role model |
Someone who a child looks up to and is likely to copy |
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Prejudice |
A rigid set of attitudes or beliefs towards particular groups of people. These attitudes are usually negative, but not always |
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Discrimination |
The way an individual behaves towards another person or group as a result of their prejudiced view |
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Authoritarian personality |
A personality type that is prone to being prejudiced |
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F-scale |
The questionnaire used by Adorno to measure personality characteristics |
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In-group |
A group of people you believe you have something in common with |
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Out-group |
A group of people whom you believe you have nothing in common with |
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Jigsaw method |
The name given to the technique used by Aronson to reduce prejudice within a mixed-raced group of students |
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Expert groups |
Another name for the jigsaw method - so called because each member becomes an expert on a particular topic, then passes on the knowledge |
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Contact |
Seeing, speaking or writing to someone |
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Empathy |
Being able to out yourself in someone else's position psychologically and understand how that person is feeling |